It would be easy to dismiss the Satanic Temple’s campaign to place a monument to the devil at the Oklahoma State Capitol as a forked-tongue-in-cheek provocation, had it not already raised nearly $23,000 for the effort as of midafternoon Wednesday and gone to the trouble of releasing a sketch.

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